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Talent Supply Chain Performance
For the schools, colleges, bootcamps, and training centers across the region this is device driver-level optimization — ensuring that every training node (institution) produces a manufacturing plan with outputs that fully meet the industry spec, so the system avoids misalignment and inefficiency that slow enterprise growth. o Metrics: Growth in the number of graduates or completers whose skills, credentials, and work- based experience meet the job specifications of priority enterprise roles. o Why it matters: A high-functioning OS can only run if its workforce is fit-for-purpose. This metric ensures that training programs are not just active, but accurate — aligned to employer needs and real-world performance.
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Commercialized Innovation
Research and development is our region’s innovation engine. But it is only beneficial when it turns into startups, products, or licensing revenue and becomes a multiplier. o Metrics: Increased number of federally funded applied research projects translated into marketable outputs, with measurable economic spillover effects. o Why it matters: When research, IP, and ideas move from lab to market, the region captures innovation value — not just academic reputational equity. This is the innovation-to-product pipeline that turns knowledge into enterprise. These four outputs aren’t just performance indicators — they are adaptive feedback signals the EKC Operating System uses to continuously improve, prioritize investment, adjust policy levers, and allocate services based on real-time economic need. Together, they validate that this system isn’t just functioning — but delivering compound, measurable, and equitable returns on investment.
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Rebooting Regional Prosperity with a New Economic Operating System
Decoding the formula for a dynamic, vibrant, and growing economy in this region has proven difficult. Despite many programs, many dollars, and the best intentions, we continue to fall further behind our peer cities and regions. If we persist in running the same legacy “programs” on a fragmented system, we’ll keep getting the same application errors. As the saying often attributed to Albert Einstein warns, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different results.”
It’s time to upgrade the system.
EnterpriseKC offers a new approach. Something grounded in the time-tested discipline of listening to customers. Something architected not just as an initiative, but as a fully integrated, scalable, economic development operating system. Designed with the same precision of the underlying software that runs a high-performing computer, EnterpriseKC functions as an economic operating system for the region — one that supports existing applications, optimizes resources, coordinates strategies, and delivers measurable outcomes. With your help, EnterpriseKC will run a new stack of coordinated programs and services — like system-level functions — designed to accelerate enterprise development at every layer. This is not just a patch or reboot. It’s a complete system upgrade.
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